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Parklife (Music)
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Parklife is the third studio album by British rock band Blur, released on April 25, 1994 through Food Records in the UK and in conjunction with SBK Records in the US. The album is considered the second part of their informal 'Britpop' trilogy, this time focusing on the middle classes.After the critically acclaimed yet commercially disappointing Modern Life Is Rubbish, the band returned to prominence in the UK music scene (especially in the rapidly growing Britpop movement) with this release, spawning the hit singles "Girls & Boys", "Parklife", "End of a Century", and "To the End", which charted at #5, #10, #19, and #16, respectively.Unlike their previous releases, this frothy blend of pop and alternative rock managed to win over practically every critic in Europe, who hailed it as a classic mix of style, wit, and good songs. Its critical and commercial reception has only grown since its release; it is often considered one of the 1990s' best albums. | |
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Title Track: "Parklife". | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "To the End" has Stereolab singer Lætitia Sadier speaking French between the lines of the verses. The "French version" from the "Parklife" single renders all of the lyrics in French instead (thus making the song hilarious because of Damon's awful pronunciation), and the "La Comédie" version from the "Country House" single replaces Sadier with Françoise Hardy. "Girls and Boys" has a bit of Gratuitous German. | |
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List Song: "Far Out" is just a list of planets, stars, and moons that are visible at night. | |
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Concept Album: Damon Albarn told NME: | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: "Girls & Boys": "Du bist sehr schön/But we haven't been introduced" ("You're very pretty."). "Parklife" "it's not always vorsprung durch technik, you know." | |
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Pac-Man Fever | |
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Pac Man Fever: In "Jubilee", right after the lyric "So he just plays on his computer game" some beepy sound effects are played. Justified, though, as the song was released in 1994 when arcades were still common enough for listeners to get the reference. | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
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Call-and-Response Song: "Parklife", with the spoken lines done by Phil Daniels. | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender: Alex James in the "Parklife" video. | |
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Stock Sound Effects: A wolf whistle in "Tracy Jacks", when the titular character takes off all his clothes and runs around the seafront naked. | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: A wide range of influences are heard here, the synthpop-influenced hit single "Girls & Boys", the instrumental waltz interlude of "The Debt Collector", the Punk Rock-influenced "Bank Holiday", the spacey, Syd Barrett-esque "Far Out", the sixties lounge music-esque "To the End" and the fairly new wave-influenced "Trouble in the Message Centre". | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Bassist Alex James sings "Far Out". | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: The audience supplies the "TRAY-CEE JAAAAACKS" shouts on "Tracy Jacks". | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "The Debt Collector", "Far Out", "Trouble in the Message Center", and "Lot 105". | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: "Clover Over Dover". | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumental: "The Debt Collector". | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Damon turns into this during the chorus of "Girls & Boys". | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Generally skews in much more of an overtly sardonic and comedic direction compared to the previous two albums. "Girls & Boys", "Parklife", and "Tracy Jacks" show this off best. It does have its share of downbeat, melancholic songs to balance it out, though, such as "Clover Over Dover". | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: Phil Daniels narrates the verses of "Parklife", which tells of an angry businessman's daily routine. The "...and the radio says" before each chorus of "This Is a Low". | |
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Homage | |
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The "Parklife" video is a homage to Tin Men. | |
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Scatting | |
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Scatting: The 'la la la's in the chorus of "Magic America." They can also be heard throughout "Trouble In The Message Center." | |
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Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis | |
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Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: The protagonist of "Tracy Jacks" is a civil servant in his mid 40s who starts going crazy, eventually resulting in him bulldozing his own house. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "London Loves". | |
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Money Is Not Power | |
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Money Is Not Power: "London Loves". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The "Parklife" video is a homage to Tin Men. The video for "To the End" is a shout out to Last Year at Marienbad. "Tracey Jacks" stripping down on the beach was inspired by the intro to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French: "To the End", with an alternate version recorded entirely in French. As mentioned above the original featured French spoken word backing vocals by Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab. The all-French "La Comedie" version features vocals from Françoise Hardy. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: "This Is a Low", a sweeping, gorgeous, emotional, epic track based off of a weather forecast. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "To the End" sounds like a lush, '60s chamber-pop throwback love song. Its actually about a couple realizing their relationship is over. "Clover Over Dover", a seemingly cheery tune about suicide. "London Loves", a dancey tune about how young people are only driven by materialistic wants and have no regard for anything but themselves. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: Near the end of "Far Out", the word "sun" is repeated 24 times. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: The greyhounds on the cover symbolize England's middle class, their life a continuous loop where everyday is the same. | |
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Abbey Road Crossing | |
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Abbey Road Crossing: There's a shot of the band doing this in the title track's music video. | |
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